By Katharina Gabor, Austrian Bible Society Bibles are running out as fast as the Austrian Bible Society is ordering them! But it’s not Bibles in the national language, German, that are in such high demand: it’s Bibles in Farsi, Arabic and other languages spoken in the Middle East. “Refugees are coming to Austria in great […]

“When we invite church leaders to see the work we are doing, it is usually men who come because very few women are recognised as leaders,” says Neema Kiswaga, who co-ordinates the Bible Society of Tanzania’s HIV work. “We really need to address this imbalance and get more women involved.” Ms Kiswaga was one of […]

More than five times the world homicide rate; one of the highest violent crimes rates in the Americas: these are just two of the many disturbing statistics about Guatemala – a country that has come to be known as one of the world’s most dangerous nations. Efforts to tackle the problem have so far had […]

“Gang culture is a very deep problem in Guatemala. If teenagers are willing to attack and rob people in the street, the gangs become like families to them, supporting them with money, with girls. It’s a very serious problem.” Saúl Sosa, General Secretary of the Bible Society of Guatemala, is among many Guatemalans growing increasingly alarmed at […]

When the Bible Society of Malawi began planning this year’s Bible Week celebrations it never dreamed that the country’s president, Joyce Banda, would attend the official opening! But that’s what happened earlier this month in Mzimba – a town in the north of the country. “We had never held the national opening in the northern […]

As Catholics across the world begin celebrating the Year of Faith, which runs from October 11, 2012 to November 24, 2013, the Bible Society of Slovenia has produced a resource to get people reading their Bibles. “Pope Benedict XVI described the Year of Faith as an opportunity for believers to ‘rediscover the joy of believing […]

“Now God is speaking directly to you, without any barriers. It’s a miracle!” At three events in Riga, along with several more in other cities across Latvia, people of all ages and backgrounds have had their first encounter with the new ecumenical translation of the Bible in modern Latvian. And with the first print run […]

More than 100 people gathered at the Jamaican High Commission in London on October 9 for the UK launch of the New Testament in Jamaican Patois. It was the result of a 20-year project. The High Commissioner, Her Excellency Aloun Ndombet-Assamba, welcomed the publication, saying it was “an important piece of work”. Never happened before The […]

In Togo over a third of the population is illiterate – a huge obstacle to the many Christians who would love to read the Bible. There also aren’t enough Bibles to go around, especially in many of the local languages. These are some of the many challenges facing the Bible Society of Togo as it […]

While the Musgum translators are waiting for the first proof copies of the Bible they have been working on, the area of northern Cameroon where they live is struggling to cope with a serious natural disaster. Hundreds of villages submerged Heavy rain during August and September led to unprecedented flooding in this part of the […]